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The Lorraine Motel
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Now a National Civil Rights Monument, and best-known as the site where Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated, the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee hosted not only civil rights leaders, but a range of famous musicians and black celebrities during its heyday. In our final episode, we learn about the motel’s owners, Walter and Loree Bailey, the efforts to preserve it as a national monument, and its complicated legacy as a symbol of both Black excellence and immense sadness.
Visit www.drivingthegreenbook.com or follow us on Twitter at www.twitter.com/greenbookpod for more, including bonus content, photos, and transcripts.
Driving the Green Book is now a book, available now from HarperOne! Get your copy of Driving the Green Book: A Road Trip Through the Living History of Black Resistance, from your local independent bookstore, or from Amazon and Bookshop.org on the web.
Explore the Green Book on our exclusive Apple Maps Guide at https://apple.co/explorethegreenbook.
Listen to the show's Apple Music Playlist at https://apple.co/listentothegreenbook.
Find recommended reading in Apple Books at https://apple.co/alvinhallcollection.
To share your own Green Book stories with us, email [email protected].
14 episodes
Manage episode 277591642 series 2784497
Now a National Civil Rights Monument, and best-known as the site where Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated, the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee hosted not only civil rights leaders, but a range of famous musicians and black celebrities during its heyday. In our final episode, we learn about the motel’s owners, Walter and Loree Bailey, the efforts to preserve it as a national monument, and its complicated legacy as a symbol of both Black excellence and immense sadness.
Visit www.drivingthegreenbook.com or follow us on Twitter at www.twitter.com/greenbookpod for more, including bonus content, photos, and transcripts.
Driving the Green Book is now a book, available now from HarperOne! Get your copy of Driving the Green Book: A Road Trip Through the Living History of Black Resistance, from your local independent bookstore, or from Amazon and Bookshop.org on the web.
Explore the Green Book on our exclusive Apple Maps Guide at https://apple.co/explorethegreenbook.
Listen to the show's Apple Music Playlist at https://apple.co/listentothegreenbook.
Find recommended reading in Apple Books at https://apple.co/alvinhallcollection.
To share your own Green Book stories with us, email [email protected].
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